As the mayor of Clarkston, Ted guides policy in the most diverse square mile in America. He talks with us about the books that led him to environmentalism and politics, and we help him decide whether or not to read "Game of Thrones."
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BOOKS DISCUSSED:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Outcasts United by Warren St. John
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
Tao Te Ching by Laozi (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
Harper's Magazine
FIND TED:
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869), Vol. II, Conclusion.